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Latest episodes

How Melting Ice Is Redrawing the Global Order | Rana Foroohar

October 5, 2026 · 60 min

In Episode 501 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Rana Foroohar about her book, Sea Change, and her argument that, as polar ice melts and new sea routes open, the Arctic has become the most consequential and least understood…
Why the China Threat Is Overblown | Logan Wright

September 28, 2026 · 56 min

In Episode 500 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Logan Wright, director of China macro and financial sector research at the Rhodium Group and author of Broken China, about why China's economic troubles are structural rather…
How to Invest for A Hundred Years | Inigo Fraser Jenkins

September 24, 2026 · 53 min

In Episode 499 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Inigo Fraser Jenkins, a strategist at AllianceBernstein and author of the research paper "The Hundred Year Portfolio," about how investors should rethinking portfolio…
Will AI Really Kill Us All? | Harper Reed & John Borthwick

September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

In Episode 498 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Harper Reed, entrepreneur and founder of an AI research lab focused on autonomous agents, and John Borthwick, founder and CEO of Betaworks about the real and perceived risks…
The Great Financial Reset Has Begun | Marieke Flament & Nicolas Colin

September 14, 2026 · 54 min

In Episode 497 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Marieke Flament and Nicolas Colin, co-authors of the Currency of Power newsletter, about why the global financial system may be on the cusp of a structural transformation…
Are Rumors of an Imminent Russian Attack Warranted? | Yaroslav Trofimov

September 7, 2026 · 50 min

In Episode 496 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Yaroslav Trofimov, Ukrainian-born chief foreign affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and author of Our Enemies Will Vanish, about the Russia-Ukraine war, CIA…
Bessent's Wager and Why the World is Calling America's Bluff | Henry Farrell

August 31, 2026 · 52 min

In Episode 495 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with political scientist Henry Farrell, co-author of Underground Empire, about how the United States built its empire, why the hidden infrastructure underwriting American hegemony is…
The West's Forgotten War and the New Russia | Mark Galeotti

August 17, 2026 · 56 min

In Episode 494 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Mark Galeotti — host of In Moscow's Shadows and one of the most informed and provocative voices on modern Russia — about the war in Ukraine, the risk that it spills over into…